Bronze and brace of top five finishes
Alice Freeman followed up her world championships bronze from earlier this month with a second senior bronze today – this time at the European Championships on Lake Malta in Poznan, Poland, again in the women’s eight.
Britain also collected a brace of top five places with the lightweight women’s double scull placing fourth and the men’s eight taking fifth place in their finals. The lightweight men’s double scull were seventh.
The European Championships have been reinstated this season for the first time since 1973 when they were held in Moscow and they have offered another competitive racing opportunity for emerging British rowers.
Freeman competed in an eight in Poznan which also included senior internationals Vicki Etiebet, Rebecca Rowe and Vicky Myers in a combination that was coxed by Rebecca Dowbiggin.
The British crew were only a second down on second-placed Germany at the 500m mark. Romania led the race from the buzzer to the line to take gold with Germany in second and Britain holding off Belarus to take bronze.
For full results and race reports visit: www.worldrowing.com
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GB RESULTS
FINALS
OPEN
WOMEN
Eight
1. Romania 6:23.24
2. Germany 6;27.87
3. Jo Cook/Lindsay Maguire/Alice Freeman/Lauren Fisher/
Vicki Etiebet/Rebecca Rowe/Anna McNuff /Vicky Myers/
Rebecca Dowbiggin (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:32.58
4. Belarus 6:37.54
5. Ukraine 6:39.41
6. Netherlands 6:56.33
MEN
Eight
1. Czechoslovakia 5:44.80
2. Poland 5:47.93
3. Belarus 5:48.83
4. Ukraine 5:50.82
5. Tom Broadway/Nick Clark /Tom Ransley/Phil Turnham/
Cameron Nichol/Colin Scott/Tom Wilkinson/Tom Burton/
Praneet Shivaprasad (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:55.35
6. Romania 5:58.64
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Double scull
1. Greece 7:21.03
2. Poland 7:23.51
3. Italy 7:26.57
4. Mathilde Pauls/Sophie Hosking (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:30.84
5. Denmark 7:36.11
6. Hungary 7:38.64
B FINALS
LIGHTWEIGHT
MEN
Double scull
1. Adam Freeman-Pask/Alasdair Leighton-Crawford (GREAT BRITAIN)
6:50.48
2. Denmark 6:51.23
3. Norway 6:54.09
4. Poland 6:57.97
5. Ukraine 6:58.98
6. Slovakia 7:08.88
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CREW LISTS
(Listed from bow to stroke with cox and club
in brackets).
OPEN
WOMEN
Eight
Jo Cook (Leander)/Lindsay Maguire (Birmingham Uni)/Alice Freeman (Wallingford)/Lauren Fisher (Reading Uni)/Vicki Etiebet (Auriol Kensington)/
Rebecca Rowe (Rebecca)/Anna McNuff (Uni of London)/Vicky Myers (Leander)/Rebecca Dowbiggin (cox) (CUBC)
Spare: Franki Jus-Burke (TBC)
MEN
Eight
Tom Broadway (Uni of London)/Nick Clark (Leander)/Tom Ransley (York
City)/Phil Turnham (Reading Uni)/Cameron Nichol (Uni of London)/
Colin Scott (CUBC)/Tom Wilkinson (Leander)/Tom Burton (Leander)/
Praneet Shivaprasad (cox) (Uni of London).
Spare: Peter Champion (CUBC)
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Double
Mathilde Pauls (Imperial)/Sophie Hosking (Durham Uni)
MEN
Adam Freeman-Pask (Imperial)/Alasdair Leighton-Crawford (Tideway
Scullers)
Coaches:
Pete Sheppard/Don Mclachlan/Alan Inns/Nathan Williams
Physio: Ryan Bathurst
Driver: Eira Parry
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